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The police officer in charge of Mexico City's anti-kidnapping department was shot and killed Friday morning as he left his home in the capital city, authorities said.

Emergency crews in North Carolina plan to assess damage Friday morning after a reported tornado killed one person and injured three others in the central part of the state.

Aid agencies are furious over the Myanmar's government's refusal to allow them to distribute food and supplies flown in for cyclone disaster victims.

Teenagers who use marijuana put themselves at higher risks for serious mental health problems, including worsening depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and suicide, according to a new White House report.

Sen. Barack Obama on Friday closed in on Sen. Hillary Clinton's lead among superdelegates, the Democratic officials who hold the balance of power in determining the party's presidential nominee.

CNN's Ted Rowlands investigates whether cult leader Charles Manson may have killed more people than once believed.

Supermodel Heidi Klum sends a greeting to thank troops for serving.

A new children's book is stirring controversy for the way it portrays marijuana use. KATU reports.

Lawrence O'Donnell talks about a possible exit strategy for Hillary Clinton.

Folk-rock singer Josh Ritter talks to CNN's Shanon Cook about his songwriting approach.

There isn't anything metropolitan about this tiny unincorporated town in southwest Wyoming, where a few single-family homes and a volunteer fire station stand against a skyline of snowcapped mountains.

Hundreds of thousands of displaced Iraqis may have to go without food or health care unless foreign aid increases, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.

From Mississippi to Maryland, storms toppled trees and destroyed homes. Tony Harris reports.

Some people call Wilmington, North Carolina, "Hollywood East" because of all the movies and TV shows filmed here. In the last three decades, more than 400 feature films, documentaries and television series have been shot and edited around town, drawing notable actors from Andy Griffith to Richard Gere.

A Maryland high school baseball coach saves a player's life on the field. WBAL reports.

A pro-government television station burns as clashes continue in Beirut.

CNN's Alessio Vinci reports that the European Commission is taking Italy to court over the waste crisis in Naples.

The government says mortgage repossession orders in England and Wales were up 17 percent in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2007.

She's not just fast. She's very fast.

A gunman in Kenya shot and killed the head of a World Food Program office that provides relief for neighboring southern Sudan, the WFP said on Friday.

Hezbollah militias took control of western Beirut on Friday, dealing a major blow to the U.S.-backed government in the worst sectarian violence since the end of Lebanon's civil war in 1990.

The city of Mostar lies at a crossroads of cultures: just inland from the Adriatic coast, in the southern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mostar -- where Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks had lived in seeming harmony before the war, then suffered horribly when its warring neighborhoods turned the city into a killing zone -- provided me with one of the richest experiences of my travel year.

An Austrian judge ruled Friday that a man suspected of keeping his daughter captive in a dungeon for more than two decades should remain in custody, an official said.

The suspected leader of a drug trafficking ring was among seven students who pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges stemming from an undercover operation at San Diego State University that netted more than 100 arrests.

Married couples with joint incomes of up to $1.5 million from their farm operation could still qualify for crop subsidies under a five-year, $300 billion farm bill compromise that would boost the Agriculture Department's food and farm programs.

Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will announce on Saturday whether he will take part in a presidential runoff, a spokesman for his party said Friday.

CNN's Candy Crowley reports on the latest Superdelegates making their way out to support Barack Obama.

A man suspected of killing several women in this city over several terrifying weeks was convicted Thursday of two of the slayings and of attacking a third woman who survived.

A storm tears through North Carolina destroying homes, toppling trees and upsetting planes.

Viewers compete with 360 staff to come up with the best caption for a photo in the news today.

CNN's Cal Perry reports Hezbollah forces seized control of half of Beirut.

A former New Jersey governor reaches a child custody agreement with his estranged wife. News 12 reports.

CNN's Lola Martinez has your Friday morning forecast in the international weather update.

Three teenagers were arrested after two of them told police they dug up a secluded grave north of Houston, removed the skull from the coffin and converted it into a marijuana bong.

Ehud Olmert's political opponents demanded his resignation Friday, saying new allegations that the Israeli prime minister illegally accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from a U.S. citizen render him unfit for the country's top job.

Motorists honked horns and screamed at each other as lines lengthened to fill their tanks cheap.

Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz hate on each other with dynamite verve in "What Happens in Vegas."

"Speed Racer," the Wachowski Brothers' first film as writer-directors since "The Matrix Reloaded" five years ago, is a dizzying pop-art confection.

French cosmetics giant Lancome and Uma Thurman are wrangling over the use of her name and image in an advertising campaign.

"We were a normal red-blooded American family," recalls Rudy Aguilar. "And ... it took [one day] to wipe us out."

Shiite gunman seize several Beirut neighborhoods.

Protestors in Minye, Lebanon burn tires and carry posters of Rafik and Saad Hariri.

Some superdelegates abandon Hillary Clinton, while others offer to sell their votes to her.

Celebrities speak out on calls to boycott the Olympics. Kareen Wynter reports.

If a stay-at-home mom could be compensated in dollars rather than personal satisfaction and unconditional love, she'd rake in a nifty sum of nearly $117,000 a year.

Elaine Quijano reports on President Bush as he prepares to walk his daughter down the aisle.

Visiting a particle accelerator is like a religious experience, at least for Nima Arkani-Hamed.

A journalism think tank studying "The Daily Show" doesn't believe many people get their news from Jon Stewart -- because otherwise they wouldn't get the jokes.

In the words of Vice President John Nance Garner, the vice presidency "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss."

In honor of Mother's Day, iReporters pick the one word that best describes their moms.

Slovenia's foreign minister says the European Union will send a delegation to Georgia in the upcoming days to try to prevent an escalation in tensions in the former Soviet state's relations with Russia.

"It came out of nowhere."

Barbara Aldrich can hardly remember a time when she wasn't a little overweight.

Coyotes are on the attack in southern California, zeroing in on kids. Dan Simon reports.

U.S. Army Sgt. Jacque Keeslar lost both legs in Iraq nearly two years ago. To get around, he relies on a wheelchair and a pair of artificial legs, which help him walk in short bursts.

In the current desperate real estate market, it's important to do everything you can to make your house attractive to prospective buyers.

Teens were arrested after they told police they dug up a grave, removed a skull and made it a bong.

CNN's Dan Rivers continues his exclusive reports on the destruction and human terror caused by the cyclone that hit Myanmar.

The U.S. military in Iraq denied widespread reports Friday that trumpeted the capture of a top Iraqi insurgent leader.

CNN's Dan Rivers talks to the World Food Program's Tony Banbury who makes a plea for aid to be allowed into Myanmar.

The Charles Manson murder spree of 1969 ended in a remote Death Valley, California, cabin called Barker Ranch. It's where Manson and members of his cult "family" hid after the seven murders, dubbed the "Helter Skelter" killings that terrified the country.

A funnel cloud was spotted in Dayton, Ohio.

Africa's food production could double in a matter of years and help stabilize spiraling food prices if wealthy nations help small farmers with simple agricultural reforms, a top U.S. economist said Thursday.

Authors Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark discuss their latest books.

The U.S. Navy begins to ship out to Myanmar, bringing with them much needed aid.

Ljuban Panic, a 23-year-old business studies student from Novi Sad, Serbia's second city, has walked 80 kilometers through the Fruska Gora mountains to attend the Democratic Party's final rally in Belgrade ahead of Sunday's crucial parliamentary elections.

From his prison cell, accused rapist Josef Fritzl speaks to magazines. CNN's Diana Magnay reports.

A gorilla recognized as the world's oldest in captivity celebrated her 55th birthday by munching down a four-layer frozen fruit cake and banana leaf wrapped treats.

Gun fire broke out in downtown Beirut on Thursday after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said recent government actions amount to "a declaration of open